History of the Peloponnesian War

The next summer the one-year's truce con-[*](422 B.C.) tinued till, and ended with, the Pythian games.[*](The truce had really expired, according to 4.118.12, the 14th of the Attic month Elaphebolion (about the end of March), but hostilities were not renewed till after the Pythian games, which were celebrated in the Attic month Metageitnion (latter half of August and first of September). This seems the most natural interpretation of Thucydides' language, but many editors render “The next summer the one-year's truce was ended and war was renewed till the Pythian games.”) During the suspension of arms the Athenians expelled the Delians from Delos, thinking that they had been consecrated[*](Referring to their purification and consecration to Apollo four years before (iii. 107).) while in a state of pollution from some ancient crime, and besides, that they themselves had been responsible for this defect in the purification, in which, as I have before related, they believed they had acted rightly in removing the coffins of the dead. And the Delians settled, according as each man chose,[*](Or, “was inclined” (etc. οἰκῆσαι).) in Atramytteum in Asia, which had been given them by Pharnaces.